Republican lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to resign after he announced Sunday that he will no longer seek reelection. “If Joe Biden is not fit to run for President, he is not fit to serve as President,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said in a post on X after Biden announced his … Read more
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle should be let go, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday in the latest volley of criticism she has taken since the agency failed to keep a gunman from injuring former President Donald Trump less than a week ago. Cheatle was recorded trying to escape angry GOP lawmakers Wednesday at the … Read more
Leaders in both parties were quick to condemn the shooting at the Donald Trump rally Saturday that wounded the former president as violence with no place in the U.S. political system. “I am horrified by what happened at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania and relieved that former President Trump is safe. Political violence has no … Read more
(NewsNation) — House Speaker Mike Johnson says, while Democrats are in panic mode after Thursday’s debate, “the American people have been in panic for the entirety of the Biden administration.” Johnson spoke to NewsNation on a wide range of subjects, including the future of President Joe Biden’s reelection effort. “They don’t really know what their option … Read more
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has added to the chorus of baseless claims about Joe Biden’s approach to the first 2024 presidential debate — suggesting the president will be fueled by “a whole gallon of energy drinks.” Biden and former President Donald Trump go head-to-head on Thursday inside a CNN studio in Atlanta, Georgia. In … Read more
Biden and Trump will debate Thursday at 9 p.m. ET in Atlanta House Speaker Mike Johnson: Trump ‘is in a good place’ ahead of the debate Johnson says Trump should focus on future, not the the past (NewsNation) — When Donald Trump takes the debate stage Thursday night in Atlanta, House Speaker Mike Johnson wants … Read more
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) is encouraging Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to lead a legal effort to support former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s emergency appeal to the Supreme Court. Bannon is aiming to stay out of prison while appealing his conviction for evading a subpoena from the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that the House will move in court to enforce the subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland for access to President Joe Biden’s special counsel audio interview, hours after the Justice Department refused to prosecute Republicans’ contempt of Congress charge. “It is sadly predictable that the Biden Administration’s … Read more
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is endorsing a bill that would allow presidents to move any state-level prosecutions or civil suits in which they are named to federal court, potentially clearing the way for their dismissal or pardon. The legislation from Rep. Russell Fry (R-S.C.) would allow both sitting and former presidents and vice presidents to … Read more
House Speaker Mike Johnson showed up at court in Manhattan to support Donald Trump during the case that led to the former president’s conviction — a decision that he said he alone made one night at 10:15 p.m. during a fundraising trip to New York — but he stopped short of committing to some of … Read more
